Labor & Employment
Nasty Attitude to Co-Worker, Naughty Word in E-Mail Cost 2 Their Jobs
Posted Nov 19, 2009, 06:54 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A hearing officer had discretion to terminate an 11-year government civil service employee over her obnoxious treatment of a co-worker, a New York appeals court has ruled.
The fired woman, Penny Sindoni, was an organizer of the "I Hate Teena" club directed at a disliked fellow Tioga County Health Department employee, according to testimony in the underlying administrative proceeding. She also allegedly kept a log of her co-worker's late arrivals and early departures and encouraged other employees to monitor the woman's whereabouts, too, reports the New York Law Journal.
Sindoni's counsel argued that she was unfairly singled out for severe discipline, perhaps due to her role as a union steward, while the five other participants… Continue reading...
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